Braughing - A community web site with organisations, events, items for sale or wanted, local services and businesses.
Chaffcutter Books - Sells maritime heritage books. Company profile, book catalogue with online ordering facility and contact details.
Braughing Music Society - Organises local concerts in a variety of music styles. Event calendar and contact details.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Braughing They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Braughing
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Braughing Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Braughing
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Braughing "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Braughing The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Braughing
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Braughing "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Braughing
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Braughing "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Braughing
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Braughing "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Braughing
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Braughing Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Braughing
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Braughing To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Braughing
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Braughing There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Braughing
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Braughing Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Braughing
